Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Richard Jordan’s execution date in Mississippi is set. Dive into the chilling 1976 Gulfport kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter by Jordan, who had every chance to avoid his likely fate.

He chose to be in the death chamber with Wainwright. The double executions - meaning inmates who were put to death on the same day but in different states - mark the nation's 20th and 21st ...

Hunt had dated Lane for about a month. Prosecutors said that after becoming enraged with jealousy, he broke into Lane’s apartment and sexually abused her and beat her to death, inflicting 60 injuries ...

Elizabeth: I’ve spoken to victims’ families on numerous occasions, and they all feel different ways about the death penalty. In Joe Nathan James Jr.’s case, the family was against his death.

Alabama executed a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman Tuesday evening. Gregory Hunt was scheduled to be put to death at a south Alabama prison.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...

Alabama is preparing to execute a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at a south Alabama prison.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss, ...